Ossingen

Ossingen is a municipality in the district of Andelfingen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland.

Of this area, 57.9% is used for agricultural purposes, 30% is forested, 7.9% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (4.2%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

[4] The municipality includes the village of Ossingen, the hamlets of Weiler Burghof, Gisenhard, Hausen and Langenmoos, the farming settlements of Werdhof, Ziegelhütte and Dachsenhausen as well as Schloss Wyden (Widen Castle).

Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (94.7%), with Albanian being second most common ( 1.5%) and Italian being third ( 0.5%).

[4] The historical population is given in the following table:[3] Ossingen railway station is served by Zurich S-Bahn line S29, which links Winterthur and Stein am Rhein.

Ossingen, seen from the West
Aerial view by Walter Mittelholzer (1923)